Trivia

Tours with group "Ringo Starr's All Starrs."

He is a singer and an accomplished pianist.

Plays piano.

Played piano on the romantic ballad "The Head and the Heart" from Chris De Burgh's 1984 album "Man on the Line".

Worked in a cling film factory (think Saran Wrap) before his musical career took off.

Member of the Buddhist movement Soka Gakkai and oversees one of its choirs, the Glorious Life Chorus.

Attended the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester in the mid-1970s.

He later attended the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe.

Attended Heol Llanishen Fach primary school and then Whitchurch Grammar School.

His first band was Warrior, a progressive rock group.